# Meade Islands

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The **Meade Islands** are a group of two large islands, [Zverino Island](/source/Zverino_Island) and [Cave Island](/source/Cave_Island), the minor [Pisanitsa Island](/source/Pisanitsa_Island), and several rocks lying in the north entrance to [McFarlane Strait](/source/McFarlane_Strait), off [Archar Peninsula](/source/Archar_Peninsula), [Greenwich Island](/source/Greenwich_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica).[1] The surface areas of the first two islands are 48 hectares (120 acres)[2] and 18 hectares (44 acres).[2] respectively. The area was visited by early 19th-century [sealers](/source/Seal_hunting).

The islands were charted in 1935 by [Discovery Investigations](/source/Discovery_Investigations) and named after C.M. Meade, Cartographer-in-charge in the [Admiralty Hydrographic Office](/source/United_Kingdom_Hydrographic_Office) at that time.

## Location

The midpoint of the group is located at [62°27′04.4″S 60°04′03″W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=62_27_04.4_S_60_04_03_W) which is 1.98 km (1.23 mi) west of [Duff Point](/source/Duff_Point), [Greenwich Island](/source/Greenwich_Island_(South_Shetland_Islands)), 3.73 km (2.32 mi) north of [Pomorie Point](/source/Pomorie_Point), 3.5 km (2.2 mi) east of [Williams Point](/source/Williams_Point), 4 km (2.5 mi) southeast of [Zed Islands](/source/Zed_Islands) and 3.9 km (2.4 mi) south-southeast of [Pyramid Island](/source/Pyramid_Island,_South_Shetland_Islands) (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

## See also

- [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer)
- [List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S](/source/List_of_Antarctic_and_sub-Antarctic_islands#List_of_Antarctic_islands_south_of_60°_S)
- [SCAR](/source/Scientific_Committee_on_Antarctic_Research)
- [Territorial claims in Antarctica](/source/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica)

## Map

- L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

## Notes

1. [Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.](http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf) [Antarctic Place-names Commission](/source/Antarctic_Place-names_Commission). (details in Bulgarian, [basic data](http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf) in English)

1. L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands](http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg). Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

## References

- [Meade Islands.](https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=128737) SCAR [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer)

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